Aluminum exterior panel and method for manufacturing same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJihwan CHUN, Kyunghwan LEE, Youngdeog KOH, Kwangjoo KIM, Jinju KIM
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Abstract
A manufacturing method of an aluminum exterior panel including: preparing an aluminum material; anodizing to form pores on a surface of the aluminum material; performing atmospheric-pressure plasma treating, at room-temperature, to improve hydrophilicity of the surface of the aluminum material on which the pores are formed; digital printing of implementing a color and an image on the surface of the aluminum material with improved hydrophilicity; and sealing to close the pores.
Claims15
A manufacturing method of an aluminum exterior panel comprising:
- preparing an aluminum material;
- anodizing to form pores on a surface of the aluminum material;
- performing atmospheric-pressure plasma treating, at room-temperature, to improve hydrophilicity of the surface of the aluminum material on which the pores are formed;
- digital printing of implementing a color and an image on the surface of the aluminum material with improved hydrophilicity;
- and
- sealing to close the pores.
An aluminum exterior panel with an improved image resolution, the aluminum exterior panel comprising:
- an aluminum material;
- pores formed on a surface of the aluminum material;
- a digital printing layer on one surface or all surfaces of the aluminum material on which the pores are formed;
- and
- an aluminum oxide film on the digital printing layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.